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	Publisher: Dev Publishers And Distributors
	Author Edited By Christopher Key Chapple
	Language: Sanskrit Text With Transliteration and English Translation
	Pages: 286
	Cover: PAPERBACK
	9x6 inch
	Weight 364 gm
	Edition: 2025
	ISBN: 9789359441160
	HBM572

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About the Book The Samkhya System brings new life to an ancient Hindu system of thought. Samkhya spans the fields of philosophy, physics, metaphysics, psychology, and ethics. Although notably not theological, its key premises can be found in virtually all religious traditions that originate from India. Samkhya espouses a reciprocity between Prakrti, the realm of activity, and Puruşa, the silent witness. It also delineates the phenomenal experiences that arise from Prakrti, including the operations of the human body, the five great elements, and the eight mental states. Samkhya proclaims that knowledge of world and self can lead to freedom.

This book presents a new translation of iśvarakşna's Sämkhya Kärikä, with grammatical analysis. It includes interpretive essays that explore the philosophical aspects of the Sämkhya system by Geoffrey Ashton, Ana Funes Maderey, Mikel Burley, Christopher Key Chapple, and Srivatsa Ramaswami, as well as its sociological and psychological applications as delineated by Marzenna Jakubczak, McKim Marriott, and Alfred Collins.

About the Author Richard Stoneman is Honorary Visiting Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Exeter, UK. His research concentrates on the legends of Alexander the Great and on Greek knowledge of India (most of which was due to Alexander's campaign). His books include Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend (2008) and The Greek Experience of India: From Alexander to the Indo-Greeks (2019). His three-volume edition of the Alexander Romance is in the process of publication.

Preface Gerald Larson advanced the study of Sämkhya within academic discourse in the 1960s. The field of religious studies as a discipline separate from seminary training emerged during the tumult of the countercultural movement in America. People were searching for the alternative worldviews offered by Asian and shamanic systems of thought and practice. Influenced by the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, a "death of God" movement emerged, paving the way for what is now referred to as the spiritual-not-religious movement. As a student of Sanskrit at Columbia, Larson landed upon Sämkhya as an important non-theistic voice. The publication of Classical Samkhya in 1969 inspired an entire generation of young scholars, eager to understand this paradoxical worldview, con-ceptually adjacent to the perspectival phenomenology of Husserl, Heidegger, Heisenberg, and Ortega Gasset.

Introduction This book seeks to elucidate the Samkhya Karika and its view of self and world. The late Gerald Larson hailed Sämkhya as the foundation for all aspects of Indian philosophy. Sämkhya spans the fields of physics, metaphysics, psychology, and ethics. Its intent is soteriological: Sämkhya charts a pathway to freedom. Notably not theological, its key premises and observations overlap with virtually all religious traditions that originate from India.

Samkhya espouses a reciprocity between Praksti, the realm of activity, and Puruşa, the silent witness. It also delineates the phenomenal experiences that arise from Prakrti, including the operations of the human body, the five great elements, and mental states. Its foundational ideas can be found in Rg Veda 1.164.20, also quoted in the Manduka and Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣads: "Two birds associated together, and mutual friends, take refuge in the same tree; one of them eats the sweet fig; the other abstaining from food, merely looks on." The active bird symbolizes Prakṛti and the bird looking on serves as a metaphor for Puruşa.

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